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This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the

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"A profound and entertaining new work on contemporary narrative in film and literature from celebrated literary critic, Garrett Stewart"--

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"A profound and entertaining new work on contemporary narrative in film and literature from celebrated literary critic, Garrett Stewart"--

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This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five American playwrights from the 1960s to the present written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from the USA, Canada, Britain, Germany and Ireland. It is the perfect companion for students of American literature and drama.

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This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five British playwrights from the 1980s to the present written by an international team of twenty-five eminent scholars. It is the perfect companion for students of Theatre Studies and English Literature.

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This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish playwrights from the 1960s to the present written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from Ireland, the USA, Britain and Germany. It is the perfect companion for students of Irish literature and drama.

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This book explores contemporary writers use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.

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This book studies the made-to-order genre of socialist-realist fiction that was produced at the direction of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy (MPD) as a part of the war for men's minds waged by the Soviet State. Topics examined in the book include the attitude toward Germans following World War II;

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The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation looks at philosophical texts and novels from the early modern and modern periods to examine the problem of representational language, the Black-figure, and the imagined blackness that willfully looks away from the African presence.

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Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality.

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Discussions of more than 170 works survey the evolution of the modern American novel of the Left and review critical, historical, and theoretical works related to this cultural phenomenon.

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Provides students and scholars interested in pursuing research into modern British leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place that provides extensive coverage of British leftist and working class novels of the past century.

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Examines the theory and practice of the historical novel in 20th century German and Austrian literature. This volume aims to work against the conventional view of the historical novel as an antiquated and escapist genre, remote from contemporary problems. It seeks to show that the historical novel is always a response to contemporary history.

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Provides an introduction to the modern and contemporary novel in German-speaking countries and the work of novelists such as Gunter Grass, Heinrich Boll, Martin Walser and Christa Wolf.

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In this collection recognized writers and scholars discuss and analyze Stephen Kings contemporary works. The contributors comment on and critique numerous aspects of Kings literature, including his take on violent criminals, his craft, and his use of the Gothic.